Again he allowed the others to search the rest of
the house - where, except a dismayed goblin lurking here and there,
they found no one - while he requested Lootie to take him to the
princess's room. She was as submissive and obedient as if he had
been the king.
He found the bedclothes tossed about, and most of them on the
floor, while the princess's garments were scattered all over the
room, which was in the greatest confusion. It was only too evident
that the goblins had been there, and Curdie had no longer any doubt
that she had been carried off at the very first of the inroad.
With a pang of despair he saw how wrong they had been in not
securing the king and queen and prince; but he determined to find
and rescue the princess as she had found and rescued him, or meet
the worst fate to which the goblins could doom him.
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Curdie's Guide
just as the consolation of this resolve dawned upon his mind and he
was turning away for the cellar to follow the goblins into their
hole, something touched his hand. It was the slightest touch, and
when he looked he could see nothing.
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